Mick Taylor Quotes

In September 1968, Rush played for around 20 people at a small hall in a church basement. We played songs like 'Spoonful,' 'Fire' and 'Born Under a Bad Sign,' and got paid $10. Then we went to a nearby deli and ordered Cokes and French fries and started planning our future.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well.

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

I love to play gigs.

I think in 2016 I'm going to focus on performing a lot more and doing as many shows as I can. There's plans to tour more, and that's where my heart is - doing the live shows.

I love being on the road, I love playing.

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.

If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.

I want to write songs people can sing along to. I can think of nothing more exciting than travelling the world and playing to audiences and having them sing your words along with you.

Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.

When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.

I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

We've played everywhere since I started The Licks. We've played arenas, clubs, school cafeterias and bowling alleys. It doesn't matter where the venue is; we're gonna bring you the rock!

Usually for the tour, there's about 80 songs in our brain.

I think going on tour, having lots of songs and music videos would be super cool.

Someday, I hope to do a jazz club tour.

We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest.

Our very first group was called The Prunes.' We did a lot of campgrounds, living rooms, and backyards.

I really wanted to make a record that would feel fun to play live.

I think what AC/DC does best is play live. That's when everything comes together. Even after you make a studio album, when you go out and play live, that's when you learn what being in a band is all about.

There are definitely some nights where the show is over, and you're on the bus or a hotel room, and it's sort of a shock to go from being in the atmosphere of a club or a theater and be at your own show to being by yourself in a hotel room.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.